Title :
A multi-lingual speech synthesiser for blind people
Author :
Evans, Gareth ; Belsey, James ; Blenkhorn, P.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput., Univ. of Manchester Inst. of Sci. & Technol., UK
Abstract :
This paper describes an ongoing project to develop an open-source multilingual speech synthesiser for use by blind people. The strategy is to use diphone-concatenation where diphone sets are freely available and to configure a formant-based synthesiser for languages where no diphone set is available
Keywords :
handicapped aids; blind people; diphone sets; diphone-concatenation; formant-based synthesiser; languages; multilingual speech synthesiser; speech interface;
Conference_Titel :
Speech and Language Processing for Disabled and Elderly People (Ref. No. 2000/025), IEE Seminar on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1049/ic:20000133
